Taking on cynics and making a tacit appeal for support, President Cyril Ramaphosa last night declared that history would absolve him over his handling of the corruption crisis in the country.

The fight against corruption has been a “slow burn”, Ramaphosa told the SA National Editors Forum on Wednesday; it’s an incremental process of tackling an “incapability war zone” in the state that was due to the state capture project...

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